A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things
Exhibition dates: 2 July to 15 August 2015
11:00 to 18:00 daily (except Sundays)
Delfina Foundation

FREE

Ibraaz is pleased to publish the online catalogue for A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things, a group exhibition at Delfina Foundation featuring the work of Doa Aly, Marwa Arsanios, Coco Fusco, Emily Jacir, Mona Hatoum, Sharon Hayes, Mohammed Kazem, Xiao Lu, Hassan Sharif, Wael Shawky, Sharif Waked, Lin Yilin and The Yes Men with Steve Lambert and more. The exhibition, which runs from 2 July to 15 August 2015, launches Staging Histories, Delfina Foundation's new research and commissioning platform for performance art. 

A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things was preceded by the opening of Echoes & Reverberations on 23 June: a group exhibition at the Hayward Gallery Project Space featuring Jumana Emil Abboud, Basma Alsharif, Samah Hijawi, Anas Al-Shaikh, Magdi Mostafa and Joe Namy that runs to 16 August 2015, for which Ibraaz also published an online catalogue.

>>> Explore the catalogue through the contents column on the right-hand side of this page >>>

Download a PDF of the exhibition catalogue by following this link.

Marwa Arsanios, OLGA’s NOTES, all those restless bodies, 2015. Video, 28 mins.

Courtesy of the artist.

 

 

Doa Aly, Tress of Hair, 2008. Video, 11 mins, 48 sec.

Courtesy of the artist and Gypsum Gallery.

 

Mona Hatoum,Variation on Discord and Divisions, 1984. Exhibition copy, video and sound, 27mins 45secs, looped.

Courtesy of the artist and White Cube.